Clinical relevance of plasma prostaglandin F2α metabolite concentrations in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
BACKGROUND: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating lung disease of unknown etiology with few current treatment options. Recently, we determined an important role of prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) in pulmonary fibrosis by using a bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis model and found an abunda...
Main Authors: | Kensaku Aihara, Tomohiro Handa, Toru Oga, Kizuku Watanabe, Kiminobu Tanizawa, Kohei Ikezoe, Yoshio Taguchi, Hiroe Sato, Kazuo Chin, Sonoko Nagai, Shuh Narumiya, Athol U Wells, Michiaki Mishima |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3679025?pdf=render |
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